Re: Applescript and VBA
Re: Applescript and VBA
- Subject: Re: Applescript and VBA
- From: Ric Phillips <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 10:09:35 +1100
On 7/1/02 10:06 AM, "Eric Schult" <email@hidden> wrote:
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I know comparisons between Applescript and Visual Basic for Applications are
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apt to push a few buttons on this list, but I'm writing a workflow
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automation article for a trade magazine and I can't really leave out VBA. Is
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there anybody on this list who does some of both and is willing to help me
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with background, off-list?
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I'm specifically interested in folks who have used VBA to script InDesign or
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Illustrator, and can compare the task to doing the same with AS. Also, I'm
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interested in finding out which apps used in Desktop Publishing are
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scriptable with VBA. Quark? I think not, but are they working on it, does
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anyone know?
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I assume VBA here stands for Microsoft's Visual Basic for Applications -
which is the Visual Basic Programming Language + Office objects and methods
used to automate MS Office components and applications. I hadn't heard that
the domain of VBA had been extended beyond MS products? - (though stranger
things happen in Queensland.) Or is there an interface to Apple Events in
VBA? (Most of my VBA work has been done in windows environments. And in
AppleScript I usually go the other way - calling VBA from inside an apple
script.) If there is a VBA API for Adobe products I would be very interested
in it.
Ric Phillips
Faculty Web Coordinator
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Latrobe University
Room HU3 324
Phone: 9479 2792
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